25/11/2025
📜🎧Broadcasting today at 20:00 CET:
The Lake Radio x Seismograf: Selected audio papers.
Marie Ertner, Stina Hasse Jørgensen & Signe L. Yndigegn: ‘Voice as infrastructure ‘. An audio paper published on Seismograf 2023, vol. 30. as a part of the series ‘What Sounds Do’.
This audio paper explores the phenomenon of voice-based technology in the smart-home. Through ethnographic interviews we study how older people use voice-based technologies and with what effects for their experiences of the affective environment in their homes. We followed nine people over the age of 65 online and onsite in their private homes in or nearby Copenhagen during the covid lockdown.
The paper makes audible interactions between voices, technologies, and homes, to exemplify some of the infrastructural and affective effects of voice-based technologies. It combine the concept of infrastructure from Science and Technology Studies with a cultural anthropological view on voice.